Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1906 — Page 2

THE DEMOCRAT ■VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER •1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. SaMred at the postoffice at Decatur.lndlaoa as second-class mall matter. UNCIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY . MR. BRYAN COMES HOME. Mr. Bryan has come home. He has been around the world and has been absent from America for nearly a year. Wherever he has gone he has been received with houum never before accorded a private citizen. Everywhere he wag regarded as one who stands for the best aspirations and achievements of which modern civilization ig capable. He was recognized as the unquestioned leader of one of the two great parties in the United States and as a man who was respected by all his countrymen regardless of party. He ig today, by common agreement, the most potential froce in American politics. His opinions on all vital public questions are accepted as sound by a tremendous majority of his fellow citizens.' Already he has practically been nominated by the Democrats as their candidate in the 1908 campaign. His election to the presidency of the United States in that year seems to be foreordained and assured. Americans generally have reasons for being proud of Mr. Bryan, and the Democratic party has cause for rejoicing. Mr. Bryan’s expected political success n cans more than a mere party triumph, although th-.t S in i self import i it. « means, in addition, that the American people have come to realize the necessity for putting their governmental affairs into the safe and steadfast hands of a man who sees things clearly and knows them for what they are. Mr. Bryan is no time-server. He does not trim his sails for a mere vagrant breeze. He steers a straight course. He does not cut his opinions to suit everybody. No honest man can do that and no courageous man will do it. It is because Mr. Bryan is both honest ?.nd courageous that the people like him and have faith in him. And knowing him to be right on all the great questions of the time, the people want him to be president. Mr. Bryan is a plain man. He reaches out after no theatric effects. He does not indulge in tricks of manner or eccentricities of conduct . to attract attention or win applause. He is no political juggler. On the contrary big chief strength before the American people lies in his purposefulness and constancy. As president of the United States he would have a proper regard for the dignity of that great office. He would not lend his influence to matters foreign to its duties. He would hardly lecture parentg on the numt ber of childrent they should have or by “executive order” attempt to change the country’s language. Mr. Bryan is a. great American as well as a great Democrat, and ev erybody—except the editors of a few peevish Republican newspapers —is glad to see him safely home again. MR. BRYAN. As a whole, we should say that there is not in the deliverance anything to alarm the conservative interests, while at the same time there is no appearance of dodging the -vital question. And the country will be likely to admit that his first speech since his great London speech has been, like that, an able utterance. We can at least feel that the man who has been received abroad as a typical American did not, as soon as he touched American soil and plunged into American politics, fall below the level that he had moved on in foreign lands. — Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. The difference between the speech at Madison Square garden today and the speech in the same historic spot ten years ago is radical. What we now that was absent then is an omnipresent sense of responsibility | • breathing through his every utterance.

His words are carefully chosen. They are animated not so much by the I exuberance of youth as by the rei flection of maturity, chastened per- • haps by disappointments which have carried less sturdy natures to the j grave or to embittered and misanthropic seclusion; broadened by travel, sobered by study, modified by the attrition of life, which sooner or later subdues the most ardent imagination and the most unfettered fancy to the i hard facts in which every political i and social ambition must be worked out. —Indianapolis Star, Rep. I * - THE TARIFF. “While I shall take occasion at an early day to consider the tariff question more at length, I cannot permit this opportunity to pass without expressing the opinion that the principle embodied in luc protective I tariff has been the fruitful source of a great deal of political corruption as well as the support of many of our most ininquitous trusts. • • • • There never was a time when tariff reform could be more easily entered upon, for the manufacturers selling abroad cheaper than at home, as many of them do, have not only shown their ingratitude toward those who built the tariff wall for them, but they have demonstrated their ability to sell in competition to the world. The high tariff has long been a burden to the consumers of the United States, and it growing more and more a menace to our foreign commerce because it arouses resentment and provokes retaliation/’ —Frojn Mr. Bryan’s Reception Speech. ? Mr. Bryan declared that the trusts were the great issue of the day. He favored the closest of the organization of the corprations and declared that no man should be a director of two or more corporations which deal with each other or engage in the same line of business. He called for the enforcement of the criminal clause of the Sherman antitrust law. —Ft. Wayne Journal-Ga-zette. Levi Mock, the tall sycamore of Wells county, cards the Banner that he is an independent candidate for Judge of the Blackford-Wells county circuit. He makes this announcement regardless of the fact that last winter he entered a primary election contest for this same piece of official pie. Had he then been nominated, he would now be crying treason, should any of his then opponents suggested what he is now contemplating. His regard for primary obligations do not seem to weigh very heavy upon his broad shoulders. Party obligations of this kind should be as sacred as the duties of the position itself. The speech Mr. Bryan delivered at Madison Square Garden was onethird general and two-thirds political and partisan. It was in the main the speech of a party leader, a platform builder, a fighter. And Mr. Bryan’s shots were not all aimed at the opposition, either. Some were meant for the conservative wing of his own party. Harmony, manifestly, was far from his thoughts. He did not appear at all desirous of earning the tributes that have been paid by former enemies to his alleged newly gained “conservatism.” — Chicago Record-Herald. The Decatur City Improvement Society distributed over the business section waste paper and rubbish cans and asked the people to take pride in the town by putting the waste in them. In many towns there is little or no attention paid to such things, with the painful result that one gains a poor impression of the make up of the town’s people. We know some towns where the majority of the people would rather throw whole barrels of slop into the streets and alleys than pick up a piece of paper or tin can.—Willshire Herald. Our neighbor on the north, Canada, has no Dingley tariff and no trusts, I 1 and yet, pier head of population its | foreign trade for 1905 was more than our own. Last year the Cana-

♦ dians increased their exports $7 a head, while ours increased only $2.60 a head. And much of our exports is made up of trust goods which are sold cheaper abroad than at home. Having control of the American market, thanks to the Republican tariff, the trusts gouge us to their heart’s content. Mr. Roosevelt says in his stuinp speech letter that if there were “any partisan issues involved in this contest ’ ’ he would ‘ ‘ hestitate to say anything publicly in reference thereto.” All he asks is that the people elect a non-partisan Republican congress. Nothing small about Theodore except his ability to know his own joke when he sees it. On the day when the Republican state committee issued a document telling the farmers of the state that the Dingley tariff had fixed the price of their wheat at 82 cents a bushel the market had put the price at 65 cents —a slight miscalculation of 17 cents on the part of the deceased Mr. Dingley. Under Republican “business management’’ it is costing more than $3,000,000 a year more to run the state government than was spent under a Democratic administration. And yet, even with the enormous receipts, it has been necessary to anticipate the state’s revenues far ahead. It was either that or borrow money. The cost of living mounts higher and higher while wages and salaries stand still or go down. Who is getting the profits? Why the trusts, which, sure enough, are protected and sheltered and made glad by the Dingley tariff for which the Republicans in this campaign are standing pat. Speaker Cannon says that a presidential nomination “is not to be had for the seeking.” This will be news to the Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks. He has been laboring under a different impression all along. _ _ -a_. - , .j Not long ago wheat was from ten to fifteen cepts a . bushel higher than it is now . And yet the same Dingley tariff law was in force than that is in force now. Where does the farmer come in ? i • In his New York reception speech Mr. Bryan promised to take up the question of “the reckless extravagance of recent fruitful subject—just as the Republican extravagance in Indiana is. Bryan says, tod, that if the voters fell disposed to stand by Roosevelt, they must do so by voting fbr Democratic congressmen.. That fact is apparent to City Post. — ■' I>■ It is'plain , that. President Roosevelt did not think much of his campaign letter to Congressman Watson. If he had thought it .important he would not have sprung his spelling reform sensation so soon. ' 11 ' ■*. s—. ~ ' ILL WITH DROPSY J. W. Place Receiving No Benefit at West Bade n and Comes Home in Poor Health. Vernon McGonagle received a telephone message.last evening from Mrs. J. W. Place at West Baden, requesting him to leave at once for that place to assist her in bringing her husband home, as he was very poorly, further than this Mr. M<jGonagle was unbale to state. For a number of years Jim has been suffering from dropsy, but only during the past few months has the dread disease seemed to have given him ’ much trouble, and during the past j mbnth he had been almost constant- ■ ly kept to his bed and room. He, in company with his wife, left a week [ ago for West Baden, which is a' famous health resort, hoping that a i course of treatment there would do ■some good, but from the tone of the message received by Mr. MccGonagle, the treatment only seemed to agitate his disease. Mr. McGonagle left last evening and expected to return immediately with Mr. and Mrs. . Place, as they seemed anxious to re-' ■turn. •: '

< i PETIT JURY DRAWN TODAY I ■ Four New Cases Filed—Andrew » « Gottschalk Appointed an Administrator. 5 The September term of the Adams Circuit Court will convene Monday morning, and a rather busy session is expected. Jury commissioners, L. > L. Dunbar and H. R. Moltz met at the i clerk’s office this morning and assist- . ed by Deputy Clerk Baumgartner, ‘ drew the following petit jurors to f serve durng the year: Alva Aurand;.. .Washington : Thos. J. Durkin Washington . C. L. V. Sheets Union ■ L. T. Brokaw Washington ( Isaac Brown Root Samuel J. Fogle Jefferson Ernest Fuelling Frank Glecker Union Lewis Boknecht Root J John Neusbaum Monroe John GilcherJefferson William Meyers ...Preble Only six townships are represented on the jury, a Remarkable occurrence. Samuel Doak, by his attorneys, Pet-, erson & Moran, has filed suit against William R. Smith and Catherine Rugg, demanding $250, suit on a note £iven April 11, 1894. Merryman & Sutton, representing Mary Shackley, filed a suit against William Coloway, to replevin a race horse, demand $350. i '•■ Hooper & Lenhart have filed a new case entitled Anna and Elmer Keifer vs. John Keifer and others, to partition and quiet title to real estate. Hooper & Lenhart'are also attorneys for John Lobsiger in a quiet title case filed against Joseph Botkin and seventy-five others. Andrew Gottschalk has been granted letters as administrator of the estate of Silas Oliver and filed bond for $l;000. REMARKS ON SPEAR HF ADS Interesting Article Written for the Democrat. Spear heads or lances, as they are also called, bein’ finished out of the same materials and the same shapes as arrow points, only on « large calibre, are not so frequently and abundantly found as the latter. The larger varieties ax ? few and far between. I do not mean that they are entirely | wanting but; they are very scarce. The fact of their being'quite conspiciops by their absence in many private relic collections bears witness to the foregoing statement. The writer, however, whose initials are affixed to this treatise, is the fortunate owner and happy possessor of quite a few. ' The largest ones in his collection measure seven ,eight and nine inches in length. Z. * The weapons in question, at least the thick, and heavy specimens, were undoubtedly used at close range in the destruction of large game, for the killing of the buffalo or, more correctly speaking, the bison, a huge shaggy.maned, hairy creature, which, in times ,of yoro roamed ’in herds numbering hundreds and thousands, over the -great western prairie but, owing to .their unmerciful and really unpardonable slaughter by Jmth the red and white man, is now almost extinct. In case it'is not taxing the patience of the reader too much, I should like to describe one of the Indian ways of killing, the buffalo or Jffioqp»pamely, the wolfish way. The wolves were the inveterat enemies of the bisons and often attacked them, especially a single, wounded or worn out old bison, When it fell behind' the 'herd and when there were enough wolves presnt; but the bisons ■ paid little or no attention whenever a single wolf approached them. Being ! aware of this fact the cunning Indian would procure the. skin of a wolf with the ears, head and tail at- 1 tached, “get down on his hands and knees wtih the wolf skin over his' back and cautiously he would creep 1 toward a small herd of bisons that chanced to be feeding quietly, quite' unconscious of the near proximity of so dangerous an enemy. Lupus, ex- . traordinarious, indeed, the Indian' j with the wolf skin on his back! There .was omething radically wrong with .that wolf ,especially about the legs. ! [its ears and head were all right and jit had a tail, but its fore, legs bent 1 the wrong way at the knees, and it ■ had long, moccasin-tipped feet trail- J ing behind its hind legs, however, the ■ bison paid no attention to that. Grad- 1 ually and slowly the Indian would creep toward the unsuspecting bison, i [pausing and snuffing about from time ] Ito time as if he were a veritable wolf 1

1 in search of something tp eat. When near enough to his coveted prey, be- ! hold", a change took place 'and there came a great surprise! The wolf would suddenly rise on its hind legs . and shoot the victim he had selected, i The wounded bison, mostly a fine, I sleek specimen, would start with a snort, wriggle his tail, toss his pon- [ derous head and kick up his heels, but he would soon become exhausted ' from loss of blood, stumble and fall to the ground while the rest of his frightened comrades galloped furiously away, the plain thundering with ’ their heavy tread. After this excusable excursion, let us once m>r? di ect our attention to the spear heads or lances. Those of a long, tapering and slender form were no doubt used by the subtle and eagle-eyed Indian in spearing the finny denizens of the water. Now, this, as some of the readers will perhaps know by experience, having tried it in the dreamily flowing Kekionga, is a feat, the performance of which requires great skill, especially if the water is deep. However, as the German saying is: “Practice makes the master,” Mr. Red Man, who practiced from his early boyhood ' days, was an expert in the art ot ' spearing fish. Although as another proverb has it “One does not always hit what one aims at,” he in most instances hit his mark, subdued and j landed the fish he was after. In “'Antiquities of the Southern Indians,” an eye witness writes: “They (meaning the Indians) have long poles with sharp points—spearheads or lances —which they dart from them with . great accuracy, because of their being so sharp-sighted; they also kill great sturgeon and trout, which are seven or eight feet under water. ” J. H. K. AN AUDITING COMMITTEE Three Good Days at the Fair This Year and the Association Made Money. The fair association will hold their regular after the fair meeting, at the secretary’s office at the fair grounds on next Monday at half past nine o’clock. At this meeting new officers will be elected, and this fact makes this meeting the mqst important of any held by the association. The success or failure of such a project depends almost entirely 'upon the officers, upon whqm devolves' the responsibility of directing and managing its affairs. Those who have the privilege of a vote . next Monday, want to make it a business vote. It doesn’t pay to swap horses in the middle of the stream, and care and good judgment should be exercised in selecting these officers. In addition to the election of officers, an auditing -committee will be appointed to adjust membership bills. The fair just closed was perhaps the most successful from a financial point of view of any ever given by the Great North-’ rn Fair Association. They had three’ good days, and the crowds were of the size calculated to make a stockholder feel that it is good to be living. The exhibits and stock was good to look at and they paid their premiums—-as they always do—and seemed tickled to part with their ■coin. Lloyd Magley aeptured first'prize on a trio of Leghorn chicks.' A LONG AND GAME FIGHT Joe Gans Won on a Foul in the Forty-Second Round. SrripDß-McPae- Special. AR,ENA, GOLDFIELD, Nev., Sept. 3. Battling Nelson deliberately fouled Joe Gans in the forty-second round > of the best and longest fight seen 1 . here in many years. Both men were I j tired when the fight ended, but Gans , was apparently the stronger. He was ; away ahead on points and had smash- 1 ed fjnd cut Nelson all ‘ through the fight without being badly hurt himself. ' Shortly after the forty-second round began the men were in their usual clinch. Nelson had his head on Gans’ shoulder and his arm down. Several times he hit Gans below'the belt apparently feeling for a vital spot. At last he drew back his right arm and hit Gans a vicious blow square in the ' groin. The hegro sank to his knees ' and rolled over on his back. Referee Siler without hesitation ordered Nel-i' son to his fjfcrner and awarded the | fight to Gans on a foul. Siler’s < decision received almost unanimous approval. The foul was so obvious i that not even men who had bet on < Nelson could say that it had not' i been committed. I j All through the long contest Nelson i had employed rough tactics. He re- i peatedy butted Gans and had to have 1 his head, hauled away by the referee. 1

i THEY MADE EIGHT SCORES I f' Johnson’s Benders Were Puzzling to the Shamrocks—The Attendnace , was Seven Hundred, f i Inability to connect with John- [ son’s benders, augmented by costly I errors at critical times, was respon- ’ sible for the defeat of the Shamrocks ■ | yesterday at League pak. Decatur put 1 up a splendid fielding game and secured hits when hits meant runs. - Grady, for the Shamrocks, had good ' control and if the errors could have • | been eliminated the result would have 1 ( been far more favorable to Manager 1 j Cleary’s team. Decatur has the cream ! jof the defunct Interstate league, and • the fact that they play almost every I day gives them a decided advantage ' when comparing them wtih the Shamrocks, who work through the week and play ball on the Sabbath. | Decatur started off with a rush. Henderson fanned the air, Fisher reaching first on an error of Grady. Cameon was thrown out at first, Fisher taking second, and later scoring on Burns’ single. Burns perched himself on second when a futile attempt was made to catch Fisher at home and crossed the rubber on Linderbeck’s single. Linderbeck stole second and scored on Witham’s double to center, making three tallies. The second and third innings were blanks, the one run in the fourth being presented to W. Hillinger on a base on balls, a stolen base and two singles. With the bases full, Burns struck out, relieving the tension, of the moment. The fifth inning was a comedy of errors, passed balls and bad judgi ment. Linderbeck was presented the first sack on an error by Cherry, wasadvanced to second on Witham’s hit, scoring oh terror of Gage. Witham wenft to third on the same error and a fietder.’s choice, closely followed around tSe bases by W. Hillinger, who owed his life at first to 'Gage, scoring on a passed ball. J. Hillinger ( reached first on a fielder’s choice, stole second, took third on a passed ball -referred to above and scored on Collar’s error in the left garden. Two men were on bases when -Burns flew out to Spears, retiring the side. Linderbeck reached third in the eighth on this three base hit,' but he died there without much indication at rescue. The best the Shamrocks could do was to reach second base a couple of, times. The score: Henderson, ss. 1 5 0 1 4 4 0 Fjsher, 3b 5 1 2 2 5 1 Cameron, - 2b. 4 0 0 3 2 1 Burns, 1f...51 2 1 0 0 Linderbeck, rs. . 5 2 2 0 2 • , Witham, lb. . i 5 12 j® 2 • W. Hillinger, cf. ...’.. 3 2 0 1 0 o J. IJillinger; c....;, 4 1 0 6 0 0 Johnson, p 4 0 0; 11 0 Totals .40 8 9 W 16 Z SHAMROCKa Gage, 2b 4 0 1 2 2 1 Koons, cf. 4 0 0 0 ft G ' Collars, If 3 0 1 10 I Cherry, ss 4 0 0 1 3 2 Howard, lb 4 0 O 7 2 « Spears, rs. 3 0 0 2 0 O Hoffer, c 3 0 2 71 0 Beach, 3b. 3 0 0 2 11 Grady, p 3 0 0 2 4 1 Totals ....'.31 0 4 24 13 4 By innings— Decatur... 3 0 0 1 4 0 0 0” —8 Shamrocks ...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O—G Summary: Three base hit—Under- ’ . beck. Two base hit—Witham- Struck XF out —By Grady, 7; by Johnson, 6. Stolen bases—Decatur, 6; Shamrocks, 0. Double play—Witham to Cameron to Witham. Passed balls—Hoffer, 3; Hillinger. First base on balls—Off Grady, 2; off Johnson, 1. Attendance 700. Time —1:25. Umpire—Erickson.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. ” ■ ■■ <• . Maud Muller on a summer day, with i her fellow ran away, in a benzine I tor >ring car, scooting to a preacher far. Maud’s, father saw the fleeting pair, smelled the benzine scented ! caught a mule whose name was Jane, and galloped down the dusty lane; 1 the mobile very swiftly ran but burn-, ed the oil all out the can. The motor stopped upon the hill, but Jane ran on just fit to kill. Alas for maid, alas for man, alas for the empty benzine can. Maud’s daddy on the old grey mule, came and took her off to school. The mule nigh wrecked the benzine cart; the feller died* of a broken heart. The moral of this tale so sad: ‘Don’t steal the girl.; go ask her dad.’ • . A jury at Elkhart has decided that James D. Devor, a wealthy -farmer who planted dynamite bombs on his land to thwart the proposed opening of a-road through his property, is insane, but not dangerous to the community if left at large. The finding is said to be perfectly satisfactory tb Mr. Devor, as he will not be responsible for damages or injuries to others, bv reason of tha hiHrUn